The Path of a Genius to Becoming a Pokémon Champion

Chapter 189: Witnessing History

After Aerodactyl collapsed, the battle completely lost all suspense.

For the land-bound Omastar to take on two agile, flying Pokémon was nothing short of a fool's dream.

Andrew put up a struggle but ultimately conceded with dignity.

The referee raised his flag and blew the whistle again.

The match was over, victory and defeat decided!

Arthur and Justin had successfully gotten their revenge in the first match of the second round!

After the battle concluded, Mismagius floated back to Arthur's side, happily spinning in mid-air, its skirt fluttering.

"Well fought!" Arthur praised sincerely.

This made Mismagius feel genuinely happy.

Compared to her past experiences, an opponent like this was nothing special, yet the joy of victory at this moment was still incredibly real.

Perhaps, this was the charm of competition.

But not long after her happy moment, Arthur's next words instantly made Mismagius's body stiffen.

"However, your casting of 'Curse' on the field was still a bit slow. You'll need to practice this move more in the future."

"Curse" was a new skill Mismagius had just learned recently with Specter's help, effectively filling the gap in her original skill list which lacked damage-dealing options.

However, this move injured oneself before harming the enemy; practicing it was unusually painful!

At this moment, Mismagius could finally appreciate what Frogadier, Specter, and the others had felt before: Master was great in every way, except when it came to training—at that time, you absolutely couldn't think of him as human!

Now, Mismagius finally had the same realization.

This could be considered assimilating and integrating into the team…

With this match over, Arthur had a fair amount of rest time.

To save time, the matches for all groups started simultaneously. For this, the club had even temporarily rented a large open space outdoors to serve as competition grounds.

After one match, Arthur had to wait for the other groups' matches to finish, and for his Pokémon to rest, before he could start the next round.

So, during this period, he was sought out by Andrew again.

"Little brother, not bad, huh? You actually managed to turn the tables this time."

A tic-tac-toe-like '#' seemed to form on Arthur's forehead.

"If you call me 'little brother' one more time, I'll hit you."

"Oh-ho-ho~"

Andrew let out a strange laugh on purpose, which made Arthur's face darken even more.

He had clearly won, but for some reason, he felt very dissatisfied.

Damn it!

After deliberately teasing him for a while to vent the frustration of defeat, Andrew finally returned to a normal tone.

"But speaking of which, your Mismagius has improved really fast. I clearly didn't feel she was this formidable in our last duel."

At this point, Andrew suddenly asked, "By the way, that 'Curse' move of hers, is it newly learned?"

Arthur nodded.

Andrew had a moment of realization. "No wonder. If she had known 'Curse' last time, we probably wouldn't have won so easily."

Arthur shot him a look and didn't speak.

Other than for debriefing, he really didn't want to recall their last duel—

Five "Ancient Powers" triggering the awakening effect twice. Those "European dogs" really deserved a beating!

Fortunately, Arthur had gotten his revenge this time; otherwise, that truly would have been an unforgettable memory.

Andrew then asked again, "But with no instructors teaching during the graduation tournament recently, how did you get Mismagius to learn a new skill so quickly?"

Arthur shrugged. "Instructors aren't the only ones who can teach Pokémon skills."

Specter had known how to use "Curse" for a long time; he just wasn't very good at teaching.

Recently, with Arthur acting as a bridge and helping to translate Specter's cryptic descriptions of "you have to do it like this, then like this, and then like this," he had finally managed to teach Mismagius the move.

Hearing Arthur say this so nonchalantly, both Andrew and Harry showed unconcealed surprise and admiration in their eyes.

"I didn't expect you to be so skilled, little brother Arthur. In this day and age, trainers who can personally guide their Pokémon's training are truly rare."

Andrew sighed, but then, his tone shifted, and he suddenly said something that Arthur found a bit hard to understand.

"But clubs probably don't like trainers like you very much."

"What do you mean?" Arthur tilted his head to look at him.

This sentence felt strangely familiar to Arthur.

After thinking carefully for a moment, he remembered that the professional pair, Bella and Luna, had said something similar to him on WeChill before.

What on earth does that mean?

Unfortunately, Andrew once again just smiled without speaking, a mischievous and wicked grin.

It made Arthur's teeth itch with annoyance.

Riddlers, get out of Gotham City!

In the following days, the graduation tournament continued steadily.

As the number of matches accumulated, Arthur and Justin's high ranking became more and more stable.

It made people almost forget that they were first-year students.

By the time the final graduation tournament was over and the results were announced, the vast number of trainees were only then truly shocked!

"Holy crap! Was this a massive upset this year?! First-years? A pair of two first-years actually fought their way to first place among the seeded trainees?! This is outrageous!"

Under the countless gazes of amazement, awe, disbelief, or existential doubt, the final round-robin results were announced—

The pair of Arthur and Justin, with a record of eight wins and two losses in the second round, and a total record of thirteen wins and three losses, stood high at the top of the seeded trainee leaderboard!

As first-year students, they had taken the top spot, practically stepping over all two hundred-plus trainees from both youth camps!

This record could truly be said to have shocked everyone!

At this moment, apart from Frogadier, there was probably no one who didn't look at Arthur with a trace of admiration.

As for why Frogadier didn't dare to look at Arthur, it was entirely because the two losses in the second round were both its matches. It was feeling very guilty right now…

It wasn't a problem with command or on-the-spot performance, but purely a lack of base physical stats, which opponents had seen through and targeted in the second round.

After the defeat, Arthur hadn't said anything, nor had he offered any criticism, only calmly saying, "You still need to train."

But this simple sentence was more fatal than a thousand reprimands, scaring Frogadier so much that it still didn't dare to look Arthur in the eye.

It was terrified of being dragged off for extra training before the competition even ended…

But even so, Arthur's total record of thirteen wins and three losses still stood proudly above the rest, firmly securing first place!

Not getting a perfect record could be considered leaving some face for these senior students.

Even so, he had already made history.

No one doubted that Arthur would be unwanted in the upcoming October transfer window.

With such a dazzling performance, coupled with being a hot-topic internet celebrity, there was simply no reason for any team to miss out on him!

Listed for transfer in October, with good luck, he could confirm a team within the month and thus graduate from the youth training camp.

This also meant that Arthur was destined to smash the fastest graduation record that Bella had held for less than two years!

A new legend was rising right before their very eyes!

At this moment, all the trainees couldn't help but feel a sacred sense of witnessing history.

(End of Chapter)

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